Comment by sebmellen

We work closely with them and I've been impressed with how broad their product reach is. Whether they should be in business or not is a question for regulators, but the market rewards their unique position. If you to own something valuable that everyone else needs or wants, they will pay you for it.

There's a bigger question about how to properly price and penalize negative externalities. From a business perspective there isn't much difference between an oil spill and a mass data breach — "Whoopsie, we'll try not to do that again. In the meantime don't you need gas for your car?"